The Martial Artists' Training Log

[bushido_man96]

11/4/2013

TKD Class: 6:00 - 7:30 pm. Basics- seemed like we did a ton of side kicks today. After our regular sets of step-behinds, we did a couple of hop-side kicks. We also did repeating (consecutive) round kicks on lots of the basics. We also did more stretching kicks and back leg front kicks. My legs were toast. Forms- Dan Gun (by count), Bo Chung, Do San (by count), Won Hyo, Do-Kang 2 (by count), and Yoo Sin. Got a quick stretch in between. One-steps- lo orange, lo green, lo and hi blue. Sparring- I was tired, and I punched a lot. I think I had three matches, and got hit with a crescent/ax kick in the head. Stretched after class.

11/5/2013

Defensive Tactics Club: 1:00 - 2:00 pm. Some bag work to warm up, and stretching. Worked some flow drills for a mounted person to reverse or escape to guard, and then person in guard would break guard and move to mount, repeating so that each person got to get some reps in continuously. Also watched to free-roll matches. Those looked fun! But tiring...

[tallgeese]

11/6

Drilled three scarf escapes. Trained together based on energy of partner.

40 min free roll.

[1Weedhopper]

Been hitting legs really hard lately. I am trying to stick with plyometrics so as to help balance and overall cardiovascular health.

Jog 5 Laps around baseball field

3 Sets of Bunny hops from home plate to first base back to home plate holding cement block above head. (these are killer)

3 Sets of Straight leg vertical jumps for calves

3 Sets of Frog leaps from home plate to first base

Walking in Shiko dachi without bobbing up and down till failure

Kiba dachi while doing basic blocks and punches till failure

[Nidan Melbourne]

25 Squats

25 "regular" pushups

25 "Tricep" pushups

25 sit ups

25 crunches

run 15 minutes at moderate intensity

10 hill sprints (20 Degree incline) 3 sets

10 minutes shiko dachi

- pivoting hip thrust

- Pivoting hip thrust and recover

30 minutes of kata

- equates to 5-6 kata

[Hawkmoon]

6/11

50 squats

50 push ups

50 sit ups

20 min pad work - arms

20 min pad work - legs

40 min 'light sparring'

20 min warm down - stretching etc

Were done with the heavy work.

Time to keep the body ticking over ready for the 16th!

[tallgeese]

11/7

45 min free roll

[tallgeese]

11/8

Drilled americana and arm bar from scarf position.

40 min free roll.

[tallgeese]

11/9

Seminar day with my old organization.

We spent time drilling firearm disarms, doing small joint manipulation, and jiu jitsu with different instructors. I presented some knife disarm work.

About 5 hours of different work all said.

[bushido_man96]

Sounds like 5 hours of awesome, Alex!

11/7/2013

Defensive Tactics class: 10:30 - 11:30 pm. I watched the coaches show the Kimura from guard, then show a reversal from the Kimura being blocked. I didn't get to rep this one at this class. Then, we reviewed the arm bar, triangle, omo plata series, but took out the triangle. But, we did touch on the gogo plata here, after the missed arm bar. Also, worked on the transition to the omo, as I have some trouble getting to that position. Its a bit ackward.

Defensive Tactics club: 1:00 - 2:00 pm. I repped the Kimura from guard, then the block/reversal. Not a lot of reps, but got some in to feel what it was like. Then we reviewed the arm bar/triangle/gogo/omo series, working a bit on 4 moves. At the end, I showed some of the GRACIE weapon retention moves, and was showed a couple standing choke defenses; one I liked, and one I didn't so much.

11/8/2013

Taught GRACIE Defensive Tactics for an area Police Department: 5:00 - 9:00 pm. The Chief of one of the PDs in my jurisdiction asked if I would be willing to put on a class for his officers, which I thought was a great opportunity. The Chief wanted the first hour to himself to talk about use-of-force and escalation/de-escalation with his officers, but the other 3 hours were turned over to me for instruction. I covered some basic escort position takedowns, then moved on to some punch defenses I'd done in the past. Then, I moved into the GRACIE material, doing punch defense (haymaker), and the stages from here to either disengage, or to get around for control, which leads to either another disengage, or a takedown unless they become compliant. I need to get some blue guns and tasers to work on moving to other force options from the disengagements. I finished with working on the UMPA escape when mounted, UMPA swim and trap, and the elbow escape, and then getting up from the reversal. I hope that the officers learned something, at least. The Chief there isn't crazy about ground fighting, but I told him you got to have a plan if you end up there.

[tallgeese]

11/11

Drilled D' Arce choke from side mount, 2 variants.

6 rounds of positional rolling.

30 min free roll

2, 5 min rounds mma sparring from the ground. Starting on fence.